Hosiery



Dec. 26, 1933. O Q HAMEL 1,941,171

HOSIERY Filed Feb. 24, 1952 W1 25555.- INVENTOR:

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Patented Dec. 26, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Meinig Hosiery (10., tion of Pennsylvania R g, Pa., a corpora- Application February 24, 1932. Serial No. 594,807

Claims.

This invention relates to hosiery; and it has more particular reference to ladies full fashioned stockings with reinforced soles, heels and diamond point toes.

5 In connection with suchstockings, I seek to provide adequate protection to the parts above designated in those regions which are subject to the greatest wear, and yet avoid showing of the reinforcement above the tops or through the so much in vogue at the present time.

A further object of my invention is to improve the shape of the stocking toes through a novel method of fashioning which results in a re-arrangement of the diamond point sutures such that they too are prevented from showing when the stockings are worn with shoes of the kind aforementioned.

Still another aim of my invention is to secure the foregoing advantages in a stocking which is highly attractive from an esthetic point of view; and which is moreover producible without increase in cost over full fashioned stockings as ordinarily made.

a foot fashioned in accordance with my invention; and,

Fig. II is a fragment of the blank from which the stocking of Fig. I is formed, showing particularly the novel character of the stocking toe.

With reference first to Fig. I of these illustrations, the leg and foot portions 4 and 5 of the stocking therein delineated, may be produced in the usual and well known way down to the beginning of the toe at the line 6-6. One exception will however be noted in that the reinforced sole areas 7 (Fig. II) along the selvages 8 terminate in longitudinal lines 10 well below the medians at opposite sides of the foot of the completed stocking, the said areas being considerably less than half of the width of the intervening instep portion 9 and jointly aggregating only the breadth of the foot sole of the wearer of the stocking. Such proportioning of the areas 7 may be determined by properly limiting the throw of the carriers that serve the splicing or reinforcing yarn during the knitting of the middle portion of the foot, in a manner obvious to skilled knitters.

After having knit the stocking down tothe line 6-6 as above explained, instead of immediately proceeding to produce a diamond point toe by double narrowing as ordinarily, I first single narrow the fabric to a line 11-11, with resultant formation of single sloping sutures 12, inward of openings of the ornate short vamp sandal shoes In the drawing, Fig. I shows a stocking with the selvages 8. Then from the line l1'-11 on, I complete the toe by double narrowing in the well known manner, with incident formation of the parallel sutures l3l4 at opposite sides of the blank (Fig. II) characteristic of diamond point toes, the lowermost of these parallel sutures respectively connecting angularly, in this instance, with the sloping single narrowing sutures 12, and thus constituting direct continuations of the latter.

Concurrently with knitting of the single narrowed portions of the toe, I correspondingly increase the throw of the carriers of the knitting machine which serve the reinforcing yarns so that the reinforcement is brought up to sloping 7 terminal lines 15 which are substantially coincident with the sloping sutures 12. Preferably, I carry .the reinforcement beyond the sutures 12 to avoid open loops in the latter. During final knitting of the toe tip by double narrowing be- 7 yond the line 1111, I reinforce the fabric across its full width as indicated at 16.

In the stocking of Fig. I resulting from the above procedure, it will be observed that the toe has a relatively short reinforced tip, which, so through the sloping lines 15, is mergent with the narrow sole reinforcement '7, 7. The reinforced areas arethus definitely confined to the foot sole and to the toe tip where additional strength is needed to resist wear; and these areas will therefore be entirely concealed when the stocking is worn with short vamp open work sandal shoes such as hereinbefore referred to. Due to the novel formation and reinforcement of the toe, it is evident that the fashioning sutures 12, 13 and 14 will likewise be concealed by the shoes, and, moreover, that the toe is given a distinctive ornamental and attractive appearance by virtue of which my improved stocking is readily distingui shable from stockings made in the ordinary way.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture a stocking with a full fashioned foot having a diamond point tip with parallel suture lines shorter than the length of the toe; and a single narrowed portion adjacent the toe tip defined by sloping sutures respectively connecting angularly with one of the parallel diamond point sutures at opposite sides of the foot.

2. As a new article of manufacture a stocking with a full fashioned foot having a diamond point tip with parallel suture lines and a single narrowed reinforced portion adjacent the toe tip defined by sloping sutures respectively angular 110 with respect to and connecting with the lowermost of the parallel diamond point sutures at opposite sides of the foot, said single narrowed reinforced portion extending beyond the sloping sutures to avoid open loops in the latter.

3. As a new article of manufacture a stocking with a full fashioned reinforced foot and heel having a diamond point tip with parallel suture lines shorter than the length of the toe; and a single narrowed portion adjacent the tipdefined by sloping sutures respectively connecting angularly with the lowermost of the parallel diamond point sutures at opposite sides of the foot, the sole reinforcement between the heel and the single narrowed portion terminating in longitudinal lines connecting the lower ends of the sloping sutures with the heel at opposite sides of the foot to define a reinforced area. conformable with the foot sole of the wearer, the singlenarrowed portion being reinforced up to lines substantially coincident with its defining sutures, and the toe tip being reinforced all the way across.

4. As a new article of manufacture a stocking with a full-fashioned reinforced foot having a diamond point tip with parallel suture lines, the reinforcement in the region between 5. As a new article of manufacture a stocking with a full fashioned reinforced foot having a diamond point tip with parallel suture lines shorter than the length of the toe, the reinforcement in the region between the heel and the beginning of the toe extending inwardly to longitudinal lines at opposite side of the foot which jointly define a reinforced area conformable only with the breadth of the foot sole of the wearer, and said reinforcement progressively widening from the beginning of the toe to single angledsuture lines extending intersectingly-crosswise of the lowermost of the two parallel diamond point sutures within the length of the toe, at opposite sides of the stocking, and from thence extending across the toe tip.

OTTO C. HAMEL. 

